Wade Herrick spent five years remembering a girl he saw once on a train platform in Colorado. Just a glimpse, just a name exchanged, and then she vanished into the world. Now his prospecting partner is dead and Wade has inherited a house in Eden Village, New Hampshire. He arrives expecting nothing but a roof over his head. Instead, he finds the Lilac Girl next door. Ralph Henry Barbour writes with quiet certainty that some connections are written in advance, that love doesn't always begin at first sight but first sight can be enough to build a future on. This is a tender, old-fashioned romance about a rough man learning that the adventure worth having isn't in the mountains anymore. It's in the lilac-scented evenings, the small-town gossip, and the slow revelation that the girl of his memory has been waiting for him all along.
